{"id":3830,"date":"2016-05-03T20:12:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T03:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2016-05-09T19:39:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T02:39:16","slug":"bq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"BQ"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"475349_229596298_Medium\"<\/a>
Hurting @ mile 25<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The stars aligned, and I had a really good race. In my last post I said “I would be happy, now four years older and well on the far side of 50, if I could better my 4:24 time from 2012. I think that\u2019s definitely possible, and if all goes well I could cut quite a bit off.<\/em>” I would have been disappointed if I hadn’t knocked ten minutes off. So 4:14 was my primary goal.<\/p>\n

My secret goal was sub-4:00, partly because it’s a round number\u00a0just begging\u00a0to be cracked, but partly because for my gender and age-group, it’s the Boston Marathon Qualifying Standard (BQ). When I slotted myself into the Hansons Marathon Method, I picked the training paces that targeted a 4:00 marathon. I completed\u00a0all the training according to plan, so if the Hanson brothers were right, I knew I had what I needed to beat four hours. If things went well on the day.<\/p>\n

And they did. I’d been sick with a sinus cold for almost a week beforehand but I woke up Sunday feeling better. The weather was forecast hot but the breeze off the ocean kept the heat from being too much. I hydrated adequately but not too much; I didn’t have to use the porta-potties along the way. I wore the right clothes. My new shoes didn’t give me blisters. The double-salted licorice Fiona had given me for my birthday replaced the salt that began caking my cheekbones and shoulders as I sweated.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/a>
\nSo I ended up with a net time of 3:51:13, cutting 33 minutes off my previous time, and qualifying handily for Boston. When people started asking\u00a0me if I would be going to Boston, I said no, having never even considered it. I had really just wanted the accomplishment of knowing I had reached that standard.<\/p>\n

\"img_796608_1001_0024\"<\/a>But then I remembered that Erin had qualified for Boston on violin<\/a> and would therefore be living there, potentially saving me a $400\/night hotel room. And Fiona and I had already been talking about how we really wanted to go and visit her in order to see the city. So … maybe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The stars aligned, and I had a really good race. In my last post I said “I would be happy, now four years older and well on the far side of 50, if I could better my 4:24 time from 2012. I think that\u2019s definitely possible, and if all goes well I could cut quite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurturedbylove.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}